Base-ball glove or mitten.



' PATENTED DEC. 24, 1907. E. LITTLE- BASE BALL GLOVE 0R MITTEN.

APPLICATION TILED AUG.17 1907.

WITNESSES INVENTOH flQ ZM zzwzmfifik I W/6 I ATTORNEYS ELWIN LITTLE, OF GRANVILLE, OHIO.

BASE-BALL GLOVE on MITTEN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 24, 1907'.

Application filed August 17, 1907. Serial No. 889,037-

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELWIN LITTLE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Granville, in the county of Licking and State of Ohio, have invented a new and Improved Base-Ball Glove or Mitten, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to base ball gloves or mittens such as used by ball players.

The object of the invention is to provide a glove or mitten of this kind which will facilitzlite catching and retaining the ball by the g ove.

More specifically, the purpose of the invention is to provide a glove Which will have a cavity or recess at the point where the ball is caught, which operates for the purpose stated.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of parts, to be more fully described hereinafter and particularly set forth in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanyingv drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a front view of the palm of the glove; Fig. 2 is a front view of the blanks or sections out of which the palm of the glove is formed; Fig. 8 is a cross section on the line 33 of Fig. 1, upon an enlarged scale, and Fig. 4 is a front view of a finished glove constructed according to my invention.

Referring more particularly to the parts, 1 represents the palm of the glove, which is formed of two sections 2 and 3, the former being the digit or finger section, the latter being the thumb section. The thumb section is formed with a tongue 4 which covers the forward part of the fore-finger, and with a lobe 5, which covers the thumb. As indi cated in Fig. 2, the inside edge 6 of the forefinger 4 is extended down so that it passes through the palm. This lower portion is cut away so as to form a conical recess or edge 7, and between this edge 7 and the edge 6 a rounded corner or projection 8 is formed. The finger section 2 is formed with three tongues 9, which cover the three fingers on the side of the glove remote from the thumb. The inside edge 10 of the large finger which lies adjacent to the fore-finger is formed in a straight line at its outer portion. The lower portion is formed into a convex edge 11 so that a shallow projecting lobe 12 is formed at this part. Below this lobe 12 a reentrant angle or recess 13 is formed, beyond which a convex edge 14 is formed in the vicinity of the wrist.

In forming the complete palm the adjacent edges of the sections 2 and 3 are sewed so as to form a continuous seam 15 extending from the wrist to the angle or gap between the fore-finger and the large or middle finger. In sewing the parts together the projection 8 is applied in the reentrant angle 13 and the edges extending from this point are sewed together. In this way it will be observed that a superfluous amount of material is formed by reason of the projection 8 and the lobes 12, so that when the palm is formed this portion of the glove tends to pucker away from a fiat or plane condition, and a recess or cavity 16 is formed on the face of the palm, as indicated in Figs. 1 and 3. With the palm formed as described, the complete glove 17 is formed in the usual manner, as indicated in Fig. 4, the interior of the glove being padded in the usual way. The padding, however, is of course applied so that the cavity or recess 16 is not obliterated.

A glove formed in the manner described, facilitates catching and holding of the ball by reason of the presence of the recess 16, as will be readily understood.

While I have described the invention as applied to a glove, it may be evidently app ied with equal facility in forming catchers mittens.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. A baseball glove or mitten having a seam crossing the palm thereof, the edges forming said seam having the one a projection and the other a recess receiving sald projection whereby a cavity or recess is formed in said palm.

. 2. A base ball glove or mitten having a seam passing from the angle between the fore-finger and the next finger to the wrist, the material of the palm being puckered inwardly at said seam to form a cavity or recess.

3. A base ball glove or mitten having a palm formed of two sections, the adjacent In testimony whereof I have signed my edges whereof unite to form a seam extendname to this specification in the presence of ing from the angle between the fore-finger two subscribing Witnesses.

and the next finger to the wrist, the edges ELWIN LITTLE. 5 forming said seam having projections and re Witnesses:

cesses uniting to form a cavity or recess in H. D. BAKER,

the face of the glove. ROBBINS HUNTER. 

